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The Mormons are well armed, most of them being equiped with a good rifle or musket, a brace of large belt pistols, and a broad sword, so that from their position, and their fanaticism, and their unalterable determination not to be driven, much blood will be spilt, and much suffering endured, if a blow is once struck, without the interposition of your Excellency.
Letter from Major General David Atchison to the Commander-in-Chief of the Missouri Militia, September 1838
Document containing the Correspondence, Orders, etc. in relation to the disturbances with the Mormons; and the evidence given before the Honorable Austin A King, Judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit of the State of Missouri. General Assembly of the State of Missouri, 1841.
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